High-Wire Heartbreak (Doors to the Past)

In 1936--A party at the Ringling mansion Ca dZan in Sarasota, Florida, leads to a robbery--and possibly death.

A successful historical mystery writer, Chloe Whitfield comes to Ca dZan to research her next novel. Chloes fascination with the circus is rooted in family stories of her great-grandmother Lucinda Conroy, who reportedly was a trapeze artist of some renown. Shes heard hints of scandaland perhaps larceny, but no details.

Chloes grandmotherrumored to be Lucindas only offspringwas raised in an orphanage and never knew her mother. Intrigued as she is, Chloe has no intent of writing about Lucinda until she sees a poster featuring Lucinda as the star performer for a 70th birthday gala for John Ringling in May of 1936. From there the trail goes cold.

Who was Lucinda and what happened to her?